Marine fish diversity: History of knowledge and discovery (Pisces)

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 2525, 2010, Pages 19-50

  Eschmeyer, William N ^a,b   Fricke, Ronald ^c   Fong, Jon D ^a   Polack, Dennis A ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

^d California Academy of Sciences ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Families; Genera; History of discovery; Marine fishes (all); Species; Statistics of discovery; Taxonomy; Valid taxa

Indexed keywords

PISCES;

EID: 77954429327     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2525.1.2     Document Type: Article

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